Linux

I am a long time Linux user and try to install it on every computer I can get my fingers on ;-). The only
bad thing of Linux is that hardware support isn't really top of the bill. This isn't really a fault of Linux but is caused by the Industry, that is lacking in support with Linux drivers. Well here
are some interesting links on Linux.

CygWIN - Ports of many Linux tools and an entire Linux-like API on top of the Win32 API. If you're kinda happy with Windows but want to try out Linux. Try this one. Or if you're stuck with Windows and want to use all your favourite Linux tools, like grep, lynx, wget, ls and soon, get this one. Also this is the only source of a secure shell (SSH) daemon I found for Windows.

Internet

Good resources for knowing more about the Internet and it protocols.

The Internet Engineering Task Force - The people behind Internet standards, like IP, TCP, UDP, SMTP. If you want to obtain the standards or submit some of your own you'd go here. Every one can participate in the standardisation process and there are three general IETF meeting a year.

RFCs - 'Homepage' of the Requests For Comments. The specifications for most internet related protocols. This is a direct link to the RFC from the IETD

Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia - A comprehensive source of technical information concerning the Internet. Including descriptive and instructive texts of the various Internet related protocols.

WWW Consortium - Everything about the world wide web. These guys wrote the HTML and XHTML standards. They also have a pretty good validator for HTML pages. I use it for most of my pages to ensure they conform the standard. Also they provide a text-based reference browser.

Digital Rights

Petition against soft patents - Defend the Parliament's Directive against Bolkestein & Council Patent Lawyers! Software patents and patents in general are a bad thing. It only ensures that large companies can suppress other companies and individuals.

NoSoftwarepatents.com - A site that publish information about why software patents should not happen in Europe. Help spread the word that software patents are a bad thing and link to this site

Bad Vista - Alternative to the M$ Get the Facts campaign. This discusses why using Microsoft products and Vista in particular limits your freedom as a user. Anyway... there are better OSes out there anyway.

General

Some general information about computer science and related information can be
found here.

Simtel.Net - A large collection of shareware, freeware and public domain software.

Firefox - Currently I'm running Mozilla Firefox, which is based on Mozilla. The reason largely is that it has this nice extension called ad-block which removes ads from web pages. Most sites now look much better.